Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation - Couverture rigide

Lave, Jean; Wenger, Etienne

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521413087 ISBN 13 : 9780521413084

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1991

Synopsis

In this important theoretical treatist, the authors push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this important theoretical treatist, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process they call legitimate peripheral participation (LPP). Learners participate in communities of practitioners, moving toward full participation in the sociocultural practices of a community. LPP provides a way to speak about crucial relations between newcomers and old-timers and about their activities, identities, artefacts, knowledge and practice. The communities discussed in the book are midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, and recovering alcoholics, however, the process by which participants in those communities learn can be generalised to other social groups.

Revue de presse

"...is undoubtedly worth reading. Lave and Wenger present an interesting and strong position on issues which are of basic interest to practice theory in a broader sense, and not just issues on learning and apprenticeship." Carsten Osterlund, Nyhedsbrev

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0521413087
• ISBN 13: 9780521413084
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 140
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible